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  Kenya registers about 60 churches every month as Attorney General questions leadership structures

  Kenya is registering nearly 60 churches every month, Attorney General Dorcas Oduor has said, as she raised concerns over increasingly bitter disputes within some religious organizations, including leadership contests that she said can become violent.

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  Gafcon-led Global Anglican Communion to establish headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria

  Gafcon, the body governing the Anglican grouping that broke with Canterbury last year has decided to establish its headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, according to a communique released Aug. 29 by the Most Rev. Laurent Mbanda, chairman of the Global Anglican Council.

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  US slams 'golden door' on world’s persecuted Christians, report says

  The U.S. government’s 2026 Fiscal Year ending on Sept. 30 likely will be the first in a quarter century in which no refugees enduring religious persecution are resettled in the United States, according to a report by two Christian aid agencies.

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  Moroccan Christian groups press parties on religious freedom ahead of election

  Moroccan Christian groups are pressing political parties to address freedom of belief and the rights of religious minorities as the country prepares for parliamentary elections on Sept. 23, saying religious freedom should be part of the political debate rather than left to individual candidates.

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  Two Christians kidnapped as violence deepens fear in northern Cameroon

  Two Christians have been kidnapped in northern Cameroon in the latest attack attributed to Boko Haram militants, prompting renewed concern over the safety of believers living in communities near the Nigerian border.

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  Christians in Zanzibar continue worship despite growing threats, increasing attacks along Tanzania’s coast

  The doors of some small churches in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago of Tanzania, have been broken, Bibles scattered and congregations left shaken. Yet Christians in several Muslim-majority communities continue to gather for worship despite fears of further attacks and growing social pressure.

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  At least 27 killed in Zimbabwe church bus crash; President Emmerson Mnangagwa makes disaster declaration

  At least 27 people were killed when a minibus taxi carrying members of a Christian congregation crashed head-on into a haulage truck in Zimbabwe. Seven others were hurt.

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